Top 20 highest grossing movies of all time
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The found footage movie with a budget of $15,000 was a bona fide hit – it earned nearly $108 million at the U.S. 'The Exorcist' remains one of the top grossing horror films of all time.
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For his performance in the lead role of Lestat, Tom Cruise received a record $10 million salary and a percentage of the profits. Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated, most critics, lapped up Interview with the Vampire, which was made for $60 million and took $223.7 million at the worldwide box office. Interview with the Vampire (Warner Bros) 1994 It made $207 million worldwide against a budget of just $5 million.Ĩ. It broke records when it was released in theaters including a new record for a midnight opening for a horror film ($8 million) and best opening day for a horror film in the U.S.
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Paranormal Activity 3, the third installment of the Paranormal Activity series was, chronologically, the first as it was a prequel. Despite it being released during the holiday season, it became a box office smash making $103.05 million domestically, unadjusted for inflation, against a budget of $15 million.ĩ. Scream, which satirized the clichés of horror movies but also kick-started a new boom time for the genre, remains the most successful of the Scream film series, receiving a mostly positive critical reception. The Conjuring 2 also spawned The Nun, which appears higher up the list, and The Crooked Man, which is currently in the works. The Conjuring 2 was the highest-grossing horror film of the year and, at the time, the second-highest-grossing horror film overall of all time, globally, behind The Exorcist. Revolving around a young boy and a snowman come to life (a little like Jack Frost, except not terrible), the film ends with a breathtaking flourish, as the pair fly over England’s snowy plains to the melancholy strains of “Walking in the Air“.The Conjuring 2 received mostly positive reviews from critics and grossed over $320 million worldwide. Though this beautiful, wordless animation is not widely known outside the UK – it was first broadcast on the then fledgling Channel 4 in 1982 and then annually ever since – it is well worth 26 minutes of anyone’s time. But there is far too much to enjoy in this ensemble romcom to write it off – namely Emma Thompson’s extraordinary, rightly revered performance as the wronged wife of Alan Rickman. We’ve all read that Jezebel article by now, and know that Love Actually is flawed as hell. Read more: Best Christmas films on Netflix Who’d have thought that one of the best interpretations of Charles Dickens’s festive fable would come courtesy of a bunch of wise-cracking puppets? In his role as Ebeneezer Scrooge, Michael Caine vowed to act “like I’m working with the Royal Shakespeare Company”, whatever ridiculous antics were happening around him. Keeping the morals of the original story the Muppet’s add a touch of light-hearted frivolity to an enjoyable family film.
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The Muppet Christmas Carol (U), 4.35-6.15pm, C4 Michael Caine stars in the Muppet’s take on Dickens’ tale. The film has its detractors – for some, the comic farce leans too far towards genuine emotional trauma – but in the long, slow struggle to make the yuletide a little bit more gay, it’s a great place to start. Starring Kristen Stewart as Abby, a kind-hearted Christmas-sceptic who must pretend to be straight when her closeted girlfriend (Makcenzie Davis) brings her home for the holidays, the film broke streaming records when it premiered on Hulu – the silver lining of its Coronavirus-scuppered cinema release. Speaking of heteronorm-nativity, a glossy, mainstream Christmas romcom with a queer couple at its centre was long overdue – and boy did writer-director Clea DuVall deliver with Happiest Season. And so Todd Haynes’s Carol, a beautifully shot adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel in which department store worker Therese (Rooney Mara) falls in love with a mysterious older woman (Cate Blanchett) in the run up to Christmas, is a welcome break from heteronorm-nativity. Even Love Actually filmed a queer storyline among its 524 interweaving plots, before deciding it should be cut from the film, leaving that “Colin goes to America” abomination intact. When it comes to Christmas films, there is no shortage of love and romance – but it’s all overwhelmingly straight. Affairs of the heart: Rooney Mara, left, and Cate Blanchett as lovers Therese and Carol in the adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel